After the first big debate, one political scientist says he expects B.C. two major political leaders to do some tweaking.
Hamish Telford at the University of the Fraser Valley says NDP Leader Adrian Dix needs to up his game in the coming TV debate on Monday, as Telford found his radio performance on CKNW to be “lackluster.”
As for Christy Clark, Telford says the Liberal leader probably left feeling happy with her performance.
"But I would suggest it was not all that helpful to her cause. She is focusing solely on the deficit debt issue, but that only speaks to fiscal conservatives. And most fiscal conservatives were already intending to vote for the Liberals. Even if she gets all of the B.C. conservative vote, that only gets her party to 40 per cent. They are still five to ten points behind the NDP."
Telford says Green Party Leader Jane Sterk scored points when she took the premier to task over cutting the therapeutics initiative.